Chautauqua Dialogs

The Twelfth Annual International Humanitarian Law Dialogs were held August 26-28, 2018, with the theme "Is the Justice We Seek the Justice They Want? Cultural approaches to international justice."

11th Chautauqua Declaration

August 28, 2018

On Aug. 28, 2018, Alberto Mora, American Bar Association, presided over the 11th Chautauqua Declaration. The event culminated the 12th International Humanitarian Law Dialogs held at Chautauqua Institution. (Note: the 10th IHLD was held at Nuremberg and it's statement was called the Nuremberg Declaration). Among the signing prosecutors were: Brenda J. Hollis of Sierra Leone Tribunal, Douglas Stringer, ICTY, David Crane, Sierra Leone Tribunal and Fabricio Guariglia of the ICC.

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Humanitarian Law (IHL) Dialogs, which provides a print record of the 2017 meeting of international prosecutors, scholars, and students at the Chautauqua Institution in New York is now available. As a cosponsor of the annual IHL Dialogs, ASIL has published a written record of them every year since the first Dialogs in 2007.The theme of the Eleventh IHL Dialogs, held August 27–29, 2017, was "Changing Times: New Opportunities for International Justice and Accountability." Highlights of the volume include the Heintz Award Ceremony Keynote by Zainab Hawa Bangura, former U.N. Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict; the Clara Barton Lecture by Elhadj As Sy, Secretary General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; a discussion on the domestic investigation of war crimes and the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) by Andrew Cayley, Director of Service Prosecutions in the U.K.; and updates from current and former prosecutors of the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia, the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda and Yugoslavia, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. To preview or purchase the eleventh as well as earlier IHL Proceedings, visit the ASIL Bookstore.